I’ve often wondered if data could be reliably stored in lab-grown animal cells, specifically cancerous ones, that multiply based on usage into large data tumors. At the very least, it seems like an interesting sci-fi tech.
Back in the early 2000s, there was a desktop interface that explored this concept. Your desktop was displayed as an actual 3D desk, and you could stack files on top of each other, smack them into each other, etc, all with physical properties applied. The name, unfortunately, escapes me, though.
That might be BumpTop 3D. I remember having lots of fun with it in the XP days. Apparently it was acquired by Google at some point, and later open sourced.
That’s the one, thanks! It was driving me insane trying to remember the name.
I don’t use macbooks very often because I don’t own one, but whenever I do I can’t believe that the trackpad doesn’t actually move. Whatever combination of pressure sensitivity and haptics they have crammed in there is nothing short of amazing.
If you’ve used the pre-Force Touch trackpads, those do physically move and imo are still the best trackpads I’ve ever used. Once you have that experience, you can tell very clearly that the new ones don’t physically move and personally I can’t stand the new ones as a result.
Move in what way, with a click?
Yea, the trackpads actually physically moves downward because we’ll, it’s an actual physical button.
Gotcha. But they only fake it now with haptics?
Yea pretty much
Apple has had great trackpads for years and years.
Yet somehow every other laptop has at best something just kind of decent. You’d think they could catch up by now…
When I owned one years ago, I legit had no idea for the first few months.
The first time I clicked it with the power off I panicked and assumed I’d somehow jammed it or something. 😄
Same with the steam deck. Took me a couple weeks to realize
Imagine if file weight corresponded to actual file size.
On spinning hard disks, it does.
neat idea, I like it. However, determining the value of a file by its size does not actually work as an analogy. There may be super important things that are stored as small text files while other huge files can be of less interest. But I do like to idea of playing with file “weight”-probably make the file heavier when doing permanent actions such as deleting?
I like this for moving files to SD cards. You could select a bunch of files and get an idea if they will fit without actually looking at the numbers. You would just get a feel for what, 16, 32, 64 gb feels like.
